>>76488751
Because male and female fitness incentives are completely different in real life. Men have to earn attractiveness. Nobody is lining up to date them just because they exist. If they want to compete in the dating market, they know they need to build something tangible: muscles, status, money, discipline. Hitting the gym is a visible, measurable way to climb that ladder. It’s also one of the few levers a man can fully control without relying on anyone else. Women, on the other hand, are born with most of their dating-market value front-loaded: youth, fertility, and baseline beauty. They don’t need to be shredded to have male attention because most men will overlook mediocre fitness if the face and curves are there. Combine that with the fact that most women dislike the kind of strict diet and intense lifting it takes to reach male-tier leanness and muscularity, and you get a situation where the average woman never feels the pressure to get beyond “skinny-ish” or “curvy.” Add in the cultural angle: modern feminism frames extreme female fitness as “unnecessary male approval seeking” while men training hard is seen as “self-improvement.” Plus, biological differences in muscle mass, hormones, and fat distribution mean that even a dedicated woman’s “in shape” looks less dramatic than a man’s, so the bar visually seems lower.
>tl;dr
Men train because they have to earn their desirability, women don’t train that hard because they can coast on what they’re born with, and biology makes their peak less visually striking anyway.
